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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
shareholders, Firestone Chairman and CEO Richard Riley justified his company's heavy investment in terms of creating jobs instead of creating value for owners: The replacement and View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
and mastery of business. “However, they often don’t get to tackle some of the big issues that intersect business and society and that don’t fit neatly into a single course,” says Robert Huckman the Albert J....
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Educational Innovation
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
drugs for chronic conditions—from pharmacies to a combination of direct mail and telephone. The idea was that if you have a chronic condition, you're in a replenishment mode. You have to fill the prescription regularly over a number View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
and travels around the world, although writing was still on his mind, Barron enrolled at HBS intending to build a business of his own. After graduation, he took a job with Prospect Group, Inc., a New York...
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Thomas Frick
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,”...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
and architecture. Still, he wasn’t fully aware of the impact that construction had on climate change before becoming a real estate developer. “Cities are responsible for three fourths View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
showed that immigrants who come into the country at a young age build better growing firms than those who come to the United States as adults. So far, the analysis only scratches the surface of what the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Your Next Boss May Be More Of A Coach Than A Dictator
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
Reserve Bank of Chicago’s imposing building to discuss with thought leaders and entrepreneurs the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector View Details
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Agriculture
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
a long time to build up a culture of integrity for any inspection service,” Quelch says. Plus in China, some suspect that foreign brands are at times unfairly targeted, accused View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
auditors. Building Capacity for Change Both studies—considering factors in countries where factories are located and at the makeup of the teams that audit them—may be helpful in arriving at an accurate...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
with his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954). In that firm, and on his own, he has been involved in the early stages of more than 200 businesses, including Amgen, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Octel, Applied Micro Circuits, Tandem Computers, Teradyne,...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts View Details
- Fall 2020
- Article
Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution...
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Sustainable Business;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability
Henderson, Rebecca. "Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It." Special Issue on Witnessing Climate Change. Daedalus 149, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 118–124.
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway...
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- June 2009
- Teaching Note
Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible (TN)
By: Anthony Mayo
Teaching Note for [408072].
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- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
come. I came to Harvard Business School (HBS) in search of that perfect crossroad of profit and purpose, and to learn more about building sustainable enterprises and making a...
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- February 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Lance Johnstone: Developing 3000 North Broad
The case focuses on Lance Johnstone, a former NFL player, who has dabbled in real estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia,...
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Budgets and Budgeting;
Development Economics;
Construction;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Return;
Urban Development;
Real Estate Industry;
Philadelphia
Roberts, Michael J., and Nabil N. El-Hage. "Lance Johnstone: Developing 3000 North Broad." Harvard Business School Case 808-126, February 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- June 2019
- Case
The National Museum of African American History and Culture and Lonnie Bunch
By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Jackson
Lonnie Bunch creates the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with only half the federal support given to the first 17 Smithsonian historical or zoological institutions. Bunch, to borrow from the African American experience of creating “a...
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Museums;
Fundraising;
Arts;
Buildings and Facilities;
Ethnicity;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Strategy;
Marketing;
Success;
Leadership;
Entrepreneurship
Rogers, Steven, and Derrick Jackson. "The National Museum of African American History and Culture and Lonnie Bunch." Harvard Business School Case 319-104, June 2019.